Senior Director - Ai Platform Engineering

Couchbaseinc

Bangalore, India
On-site
Distributed systems
Cloud-native platforms
Ai platform capabilities
Lead the development and scaling of Couchbase's Operational AI platform capabilities, owning strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence

Job Summary

  • Lead the development and scaling of Couchbase's Operational AI platform capabilities, owning strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence.
  • Drive architectural decisions at the intersection of Databases, PaaS, and AI, ensuring production-grade scalability for large-scale workloads.
  • Partner closely with Product, Field, Support, and Customer Success to deliver differentiated enterprise AI capabilities while balancing innovation with operational rigor.

Matching Summary

Lead the development and scaling of Couchbase's Operational AI platform capabilities, owning strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Distributed systems
  • Cloud-native platforms
  • AI platform capabilities
  • SaaS services at scale
  • Vector search and indexing
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • LLM and inference systems

Nice-to-have

  • Company growth influence
  • Customer adoption impact
  • Platform reliability
  • Competitive market position
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Executive level partnerships

Key Requirements

  • 15+ years software engineering
  • 5+ years leading multiple teams
  • Deep Experience in Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Hands-on familiarity with Data and AI infrastructure concepts
  • Experience building and operating production SaaS services
  • Experience in Go, Python or Java

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